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How far is your house from BART? If I end up coming, I could bring a PS3 setup for BB.

What are the non-wheel/dive loops for curse mode? i.e the ones with just bugs and arakune being far? I feel this will be a bit more needed for CS2 and I like having burst insurance.

Any chances there will be tournaments near the SF/Oakland area, or just local meetups or whatev? :c

eh, i've been trying to go into tournaments here in norcal but i just forget/don't feel like driving or i feel it's too far from oakland i'll try to go to the next one if it's on a weekend/break for me, since still in high school and all (not this week though!)

Considering getting curse requires us to actually get into a combo now, we need to use whatever pressure string we can use. And remember:

Unblockable in all cases, or air unblockable?

Yeah, Arakune's offensive game pre-curse seems like it will be interesting. Though I still want to know if j.D will trade now, and if jump frames actually changed from 6f to something lower, since that's unconfirmed atm.

I hope the OP for this will turn out well, this song deserves it. :V Do loketests get shown in Bururaji anyway? I don't see it.

On midscreen? If so, damn.

Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up. I guess it would make people deal with pressure a bit longer, especially Arakune. His backdash recovery is nerfed, and I suppose IB 5A or new 6B won't be as strong. But then again, final product will determine that, so no worries on my end. I honestly can't wait to try new Ara.

More or less a universal change, but Instant Block (IB) is now 2-3f less recovery as opposed to 5f. Correct me if I'm wrong, and I guess I should blame myself for not knowing this, but that would make 5A on IB 3-4f of start up as opposed to 1f, or would it still be 5f on start up but would come out earlier due to less recovery?

what are the arakune unblockable setups anyway? i know they probably won't be applied that much in real matches, but i just want to know them.

A good example is also blocking Bang's Daifunka, since the game "stops" when you block it, but you can do things after it runs out. Which for Tager means a 720/360, and for others a punish/FC.

Could someone tell me how the high air throw combo looks like? I can't really get it from the notations.

Use j.6abc a lot and you'll probably catch the other Arakune setting up + 2.2k damage from bird > bird > wheel. Most Arakunes usually go offensive than defensive from I see it.

Well, I was mostly thinking after all of the loops. I should've mentioned that, my bad.

Would forcing an f of g be viable to recurse in the corner? i.e airgrab, tager techs, F of G?

Well that's kind of cool. Shame there isn't any machines in San Francisco or something. That's like a 50 minute ride for me.

Also, 5D used as a meaty on wakeup, or just go back and summon clouds/ do 2D in a distance / jump in? Trying to experiment and have a lot of ways to play Ara's wakeup game.

Really? Well then again even if it did have a long duration (like 20 seconds), they'd probably already be absorbed or you'd get hit. Considering the teleport and jump nerfs, i guess it could be a nerf, but i suppose it can be easily worked around once we get our hands on him.

also stop using google translator and just let a person do it, way more accurate and saves us the trouble of guessing a vague translator.

Is it funny that I actually know this person in the image and talk to him every single day? e: also, 6 second clouds aren't that bad i suppose if it means that. how long do they usually last?

If you mean Satsuki's bullshit 623C in CC with the really dumb range, then yeah v:

速度が早くなった？（第2回でJ移行Fが遅くなった代償か？） Another change.